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Encyclopedia Britannica



REDRUTH

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 970 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
REDRUTH , a market town in the Camborne parliamentary division of
Cornwall
 , England, 17 M. E.N.E. of Penzance, on the
Great
  Western railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 10,451. It lies high, on the northward slope of the central
elevation
  of the county, with bare rocky moors to the
south
 . It is the
chief
  mining town in
Cornwall
 , and the hulk of the population is engaged in the tin mines or at the numerous tin-streaming works. The parish church of St Uny, of which only the tower is ancient (Perpendicular), stands outside the town to the west, at the foot of a rugged hill named Cam Brea. On the summit of this hill, besides a
monument
  (1836) to Lord de Dunstanville and a small ancient castle, various prehistoric remains are traceable. A museum attached to the science and art schools and a miners'
hospital
 
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are notable institutions in Redruth. A large quantity of the tin is sold by public
auction
  at the mining exchange, the sales being known as tin-ticketings. There are manufactures of safety fuses, breweries, iron foundries and railway works. Tramways serve the neighbouring mines and the small port of Portreath on the north
coast
 .


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